Reeks 1 - Papers relating to Harry Cottrell-Dormer

Folder 1:
‘Church Missionary Society Half-castes 1942’1947’ – print out of documents from National Archives
Email and photographs sent by Daryl Lightfoot 13/7/2017 – Cottrell-Dormer’s colportage vans
Email correspondence with John Harris of Bible Society Australia re. access to BSA records – May 2017
Photocopy of letter of recommendation for H C-D – 1941
HCD – photocopy of application letter to Melbourne Bible Institute 29/1/1935
Response from MBI and completed application form February 1935
HCD – letter to C.H. Nash, 4th May 1936
Letter to HCD from Principal C.H. Nash (of MBI) 6/5/1936
Letter to HCD from Principal C.H. Nash (of MBI) 16/3/1938
HCD to C.H. Nash 21/5/1938
HCD to C.H. Nash 19/11/1939
Letter to HCD from Principal C.H. Nash (of MBI) 31/11/1959
Photocopy of wedding portrait of Harry and Dorothy 21/1/1938
‘Colportage in Southern Queensland’ report 9/6/65
Summary of Central Australian journey (1960 Winter)
Colportage in North Australia November 30, 1956 – photocopy of manuscript and printed versions
Inland colportage report November 1959
Original copies of The Sower News Bulletin – Colportage Diary April 1965; Inland colportage report November 1959; Colportage in Australia report 3/4/64-16/6/64
Photocopy – Sower Winter 1992 – includes article on HCD
Folder 2:
‘The Church on the Hill: an introduction to the history of St Anne’s Church, Ryde 1826-1976’ by Mavis K. Benson and J. Ernest Benson; 1992
‘Saltwater Fella’ by John Moriarty. Photocopy of chapter 2: Childhood in Mulgoa.
Printout of Find & Connect website entry on Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes, Mulgoa.
Printout of ADEB entry on Emily Dove (1889-1978)
Printout of Stolen Generations website entry on the bombing of Darwin and the evacuation of the Aborigines, dated 24/7/2012
Extracts from ‘Our AIM’ newsletter 1947-1949
Printouts from Moore College student register and class photos, containing HCD
Photocopied images of Dorothy Henry and her parents
Printout from NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages – Harry and Dorothy’s marriage 20/1/1938
Printout from NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages – Dorothy’s birth 9/7/1915
Notes on the Henry family (Dorothy’s family)
Liverpool City Council fact sheets on Badgerys Creek Public School and the history of Badgerys Creek
Photocopied extracts from ‘A little bit country: an oral history of Badgerys Creek’ Beverley Donald and Bill Gulson
Printout of Wikipedia article on Badgerys Creek
Obituary of HCD by Tom Reeve, 2005
The Sower article on HCD, September 1972
Obituary from Breaking Christian News, by Ramon Williams & Teresa Neumann, 6/5/2005
The Sower, special centenary edition, 1968
Obituary in Bibles @ Work, Spring 2005
Photocopied extracts from ‘Abundance of Rain: The story of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Australia 1817-1967’ by Ronald Hickin
Photocopied extracts from the Good News Bible, Anniversary Australian Edition, section on the history of BFBS in Australia
Entry on HCD in the Sydney Diocesan Year Book, 1950 and 2004
Manuscript notes of Tom Reeve
Photocopied extracts from ‘These Happy Warriors’ by Marcus Loane
Photocopy of letters from M.L. Loane to Alfred Stanway, 28/10/1946 and 12/1/1947
Manuscript notes on HCD by Marcus Loane, used at HCD’s funeral April 2005
Photocopy of ‘Archbishop Loane takes a breather’ PNG Post Courier 27/4/72
Photocopy of funeral order of service for HCD 14/4/2005
Correspondence with James Cottrell-Dormer, March 2012
Photocopied extract from ‘The Bond of Sacrifice: a biographical record of all British soldiers who fell in the Great War’ on Lieut. Commander Humphrey Cottrell-Dormer and Lieut. Charles Cottrell-Dormer
Photocopied extract from ‘Aegean Adventures’ by Michael Woodbine Parish – mentions HCD’s grandparents
Correspondence sent to Tom Reeve in response to obituary
Folder 3:
Manuscript notes on HCD’s material, July 2018
Photocopies of The District Circular, The Oaks and Burragorang, 1941-1942
Photocopies of Trove articles on HCD, 1949-1958
Harry Clement Upton Cottrell-Dormer (1912-2005) – article by Tom Reeve, 2017
Correspondence with Mt Wilson and Mt Irvine Historical Society, with photos of HCD’s house in Mt Wilson, January 2018
Copy of ‘Harry Clement Upton Cottrell-Dormer (1912-2005)’ Occasional Paper of the Ferguson Memorial Library, no. 8, 2017
Copies of The Sower and Bible Society Annual Reports, 1956-1973
Copies of photos of central Australia
Folder 4:
Correspondence relating to the publishing of HCD’s biography, 2017
Photocopies of records from Western Sydney University archives on HCD and the Hawkesbury Agricultural College.
Extract from Cable Clerical Index entry on HCD
Photocopies of The Sower colportage reports, 1956-1965
Hawkesbury Agricultural College journal March 2006 – includes obituary of HCD by Tom Reeve
Folder 5:
Letter from Dr Keith Suter, 25/01/2018
Letter from Dr Robert Loane, 20/01/2018
Photocopy of inscription inside Bible given to HCD by Archbishop Mowll, 28/02/1943
Photocopied extracts from ‘The wheel tracks of pioneer preachers’
Manuscript list of books belonging to HCD 2005
Invitation to event on HCD and opening of a small library of his books at Mt Annan, 28/3/2006
Photographs of HCD’s prismatic compass, taken 29/12/2012
Photocopy of biography of Lieutenant Charles Cottrell-Dormer
Photocopy of card given to HCD from Tom Cottrell-Dormer, 19/12/1925
Preliminary draft of Tom Reeve’s article on HCD, 2017
Email correspondence with Allan Blanch, 2017
Printout from Old Cumbria Gazeteer website on St Gregory’s Church, Sedbergh, Cumbria
Email from Donald Howard on Hawkesbury Agricultural College, 29/09/2017
Email correspondence with James Cottrell-Dormer, 2017
Article on Albert Namatjira in The Weekend Australian, 14-15 October 2017
Folder 6: ‘Personal’
Letter to HCD from Merv Olsen, 20/02/1986
Letter to Merv Olsen from HCD, 17/3/1986
Partial letter to HCD, 22/3/1997
Manuscript notes on HCD
Folder 7: Miscellany
Manuscript notes on HCD, Sep 1970
Manuscript notes on Clement Cottrell-Dormer, Anne Dormer and Robert Dormer
Prayers and poems in HCD’s handwriting
‘Mildred Cable’ Doers of the Word, British and Foreign Bible Society
Order of service, service taken by HCD, undated
Lecture notes – All Souls Church, Langham Place, London – Annual Training School
‘Missing day found: scientists look to the Bible’ 1 pp.
‘A link in the chain’ Warren Hicks, APL Today, August 1994
Typescript notes on fasting
Typescript notes on repentance
Folder 8:
'Notes on Rev H. C-Dormer' by Tom Reeve - note book with extensive manuscript notes on HCD's life, family background and work.